Decentraland has announced the return of Metaverse Fashion Week March 28-31 2023.

Cross metaverse partnerships, interoperable wearables, teleporting between metaverses, an avatar ‘supermodel’ ambassador and even CFDA recognition (of sorts) make for an interesting follow up.

The virtual fashion event pioneered by Decentraland and immersive art and culture platform UNXD will follow the IRL runways of New York, London, Milan and Paris. For this second installment, Decentraland will partner with two additional metaverses — photorealistic Spatial and ARAR -4.8% enabled OVER.

One of the main things that limited the scope of Metaverse Fashion Week’s first outing in March was the fact that Decentraland wearables, could, for the most part, only be worn in Decentraland by Decentraland avatars. However, technology has developed over the ensuing eight months. Creators of digital fashion NFTs that originate outside of Decentraland can now incorporate a Linked Wearable feature (a 3D representation of said NFT) meaning they can be mapped to (worn in) multiple metaverses (by Ready Player Me avatars in the case of Spatial) — as confirmed following a deep dive with the Decentraland team.

While the linked component has no additional resale or rarity value per se, (as yet), beyond that of the original NFT, it’s essentially a fix that makes a wearable interoperable and portable.

As well as the Decentraland Metaverse Fashion Week hub, satellite runways and happenings will take place in Spatial and OVER. Brands have the option to replicate their shows in each or host them concurrently in all three at the same time.